EA Announces Simpsons Game, Parodies Videogames

Eurogamer has the news that The Simpsons will be coming to a new videogame title sometime in the near future, a new game with an interesting twist. Instead of playing as the Simpsons inside a more typical genre, such as the arcade smash-em-up from the early nineties or The Simpsons Road Rage, EA's newly-announced title will lampoon other videogames using typical Simpsons comedy. All of the cast members will be lending their voices to the title, and hints about the type of games we can expect were already available when the press release went out. A mock poster with the words Medal of Homer flying above a war-torn battlefield suggests what we might see in the game. "Described as a 16-level 'action comedy' with a storyline penned by the long-running TV show's long-running writers, the new Simpsons game is due out on PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, PS2, DS and PSP this autumn. It's being put together by EA Redwood Shores, and is full of touches that EA reckons fans of the series - now 400 episodes old - will find exciting, like individual title animations and stories for each of the 16 levels, which are being treated like episodes." You can see the posters from the EA event over at Kotaku.

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Long running authors?

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I hope they mean some of the earlier authors. The buffoons they have writing for the Simpsons these days should be beaten to death with their own worthless Ivy League diplomas. The situations they put the Simpsons in are about as far removed from the working class experience as it is possible to get. Add to that the tendency to try to inject Family Guy style pop-reference non-sequitur humor and you have a recipe for disaster. The Simpsons is not Family Guy, and it is definitely not fucking Frasier, you twits. They are a working class family, they don't go to fucking jazz concerts in the park, m'kay?